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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
Chassis No. 155
Engine No. 169
Registration No. K 19
August 31, 2017

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre
Concours Of Elegance - Hampton Court Palace 2017

Source: Flickr, posted by user 'LD Photography'
Posted: Sep 16, 2020

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August 31, 2017

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
At Hampton Court’s Concours d’Elegance Motor Show in London, September 2017

Source: Bob Rippon
Posted: Oct 9, 2017

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October 31, 2016
"I have a question. The Bentley with registration number K 19 had a supercharger in the 1967 Casino Royale movie (Blower Bentley). Except in the movie, I haven't seen any supercharger in the actual photographs of the K 19. What has happend with the supercharger of this Bentley?"

Source: Miguel Gmcc Canas
Posted: Nov 9, 2016

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July 31, 2016

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 3-Litre Vintage Bentley chassis no. 155 at BDC Silverstone 2016

Source: Robert McLellan
Posted: Jan 17, 2020

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January 31, 2016
The following information was received from Mike Warner:

Source: Mike Warner (Owner)
Posted: Feb 11, 2016

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2016

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
Bentley At Tavistock steam fair, 2016

Source: Flickr, posted by user 'kerihampson'
Posted: Feb 21, 2017

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May 5, 2013

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
Newport, UK - May 2013

Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Charles Dawson'
Posted: Nov 17, 2014

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September 7, 2012

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
Windsor Castle Concours of Elegance, September 2012

Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Graham Woodward'
Posted: Dec 18, 2015

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August 10, 2012

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
The Bentley Drivers Club, Silverstone Race Meeting - Saturday 11th August 2012

Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Paul Holtom'
Posted: Apr 20, 2015

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May 31, 2012

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
Brooklands Double-Twelve, June 2012

Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Graham Woodward'
Posted: Jan 31, 2015

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August 12, 2011

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
Bentley Drivers Club Meeting at Silverstone - 13th August 2011

Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: Jun 24, 2015

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2011

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
 

Source: Russell Browne
Posted: Apr 29, 2013

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2006
In Germany in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member

Posted: Jan 1, 0001

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2005
This car was purchased by Mike Warner in 2005.

Source: Mike Warner (Owner)
Posted: Feb 11, 2016

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2005

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
 

Source: Stanley Mann Racing
Posted: Jun 11, 2005

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1968

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
"I have known of K19 since the 1950s when it was owned by Bill & Joyce Thallon who lived in Gerrards Cross, Bucks. They happened to be clients of my mother the local Veterinary Surgeon. Bill & Joyce had, at that time, a couple of German Shepherd dogs that rode in the back of K19 (complete with goggles I might add!). Bill & Joyce left to live in Skibbereen, Co. Cork Eire on Tuesday 15th October 1968.

The Coachbuilder was Automarine of Brighton (their plate was on the car)."

"This card (above) I got from Bill & Joyce Thallon when they left England for Ireland in 1968. This might interest the present owner as part of the history of the car."

Source: Robert Beckett
Posted: Jul 25, 2012

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1965

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
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"K19, a 1923 3 litre, owned by friends (Bill and Joyce Thallon) of my mother's who lived just up the road from us in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, was the start of my interest in vintage Bentleys. Bill and Joyce had a couple of German Shepherd dogs that would ride in the back of K19 -- kitted out with their own goggles I might add! One of the dogs that my mother treated (she was a veterinary surgeon), was coming around from an anaesthetic just as K19 passed the surgery. Clearly that unique throaty exhaust note aroused the semi-comatose animal which tried to get to its feet!

Source: Robert Beckett
Posted: Jul 25, 2012

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
This photograph is from an advertisement by Dan Margulies in "Thoroughbred & Classic Cars" magazine, January 1977.

Text in ad says: 1923 Bentley 3 litre short chassis number 155; speed model engine; as used in James Bond film "Casino Royal".

Source: "Thoroughbred & Classic Cars" magazine, January 1977
Posted: Jul 22, 2008

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
Bentley 4½ Litre Blower Special in 'Casino Royale', Movie, 1967

Source: Internet Movie Cars Database
Posted: Jan 19, 2009

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This car was owned by Clyde Thorley in the early seventies. It was purchased from Wing Commander Bill Thelen.

Source: Clyde Thorley (Former owner)
Posted: Oct 9, 2012

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
 

Source: RMC Cars, France
Posted: Jul 16, 2010

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"My brother-in-law and I bought K19 from Wing Comander Bill Thelen in Kinsail. Bill was a great character who had taken K19 with a trailer full of fox hounds to hunt in Southern Ireland. He had many stories to tell, one was he had been shot down over Germany and had spent the rest of the war in the wooden horse camp. Bill looked very like David Niven so he drove K19 in many shots in Casslna Royel.

I hope this helps build up the story Bentley Reg K19."

Source: Clyde Thorley (former owner)
Posted: Dec 1, 2010

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Oct 1, 2012: "I owned an RO Bentley conversion in the early seventies no. plate K19, I bought it in Ireland off Wing Commander Bill Thelen. I sold it a year later. I would love to know what happened to to it."

"What is a "RO Bentley conversion"? Any information and photos that you can add, we will put on the web site chassis page. Thanks." — Robert McLellan, VintageBentleys.org

Source: Clyde Thorley (Former owner)
Posted: Oct 9, 2012

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Owned by Bill and Joyce Thallon in the 1950s and 1960s.

Source: Robert Beckett
Posted: Jul 17, 2012

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1923 Bentley 3 Litre S
 

Source: Rolls-Royce by George Fenn, 1983
Posted: Jan 29, 2007

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Earliest Record Of Historical Facts & Information

Chassis No. 155
Engine No. 169
Registration No. K 19
Date of Delivery: 31 Dec 1922
Type of Body: No info
Coachbuilder: No info
Type of Car: S
First Owner: ANNETT M A
More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "H.M. Bentley style 2 seater by Automarine 1949. Used in film "Casino Royale". Engine *932 ex ch. 912. Now reg *SV 4797."

Sep 15, 2006

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